What’s New This Week……….
The Swiss Helvetia (1897 – 1949) embodies Switzerland's status as a financial center of the world. The coin's long standing reputation among investors and collectors illustrates its outstanding beauty and quality. The Swiss Helvetia, like other European gold coins, has a rich and lengthy heritage.Wayne Sayles discusses preserving the cultural record. “If none of the items listed above are ever destroyed, nor preserved in private hands, and each year the 100 year rolling window adds another layer of qualifying objects, then global warming will quickly become a very small issue in comparison to the space problem at institutional repositories.”
A coin profile on the Norweb Specimen of the 1796 15 Stars Small Eagle Half Dollar, a Highlight of the B&M Sale in Baltimore. “The Half Dollars that the United States Mint delivered in 1797 differed from the previous issues for this denomination from 1794 and 1795.”
The newest resource for paper money collectors is now available online. PCGS Currency has expanded the PCGS Currency Population Report, a report by grade of more than 250,000 notes authenticated and certified by PCGS Currency, to include population by serial number block.
NEW & UPDATED – Our coverage of rare coin and currency news has expanded with Austin Purvis taking over as Editor of Coin News Daily. This is a special section of CoinLink where we scour the web for items of interest related to numismatics and post a short excerpt and link to these “off site” resources.
We have also made changes to The Bullion Report with daily news and article updates, and a monthly analysis of the “Premiums Over Spot” for Gold and Silver Bullion products.
View all the latest rare coin news here
CoinLink 02 Nov, 2010
Source: http://www.coinlink.com/uncategorized/featured-coin-news-and-articles-for-october-31-november-6-2010/
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